My heart beat wildly at my first public performance , a school operetta .
在第一次学校小歌剧的公开表演时,我的心疯狂地跳着。
Still , we can observe that the musical is primarily an american form , even if it showed clear evidence of influence from european operetta .
尽管欧洲轻歌剧对音乐剧的影响一目了然,但在我们看来音乐剧主要还是美式的。
In a time when mass media was restricted to print and live performance an operetta like la mascotte was enough to launch a new word into english .
在一个大众传媒仅限于纸质出版物的年代,像“吉祥物”这样的一出歌剧已足以为英文词汇添丁了。
Operetta is usually less serious and more ligbt-hearted than opera .
轻歌剧通常比歌剧通俗而轻松。
Right at the end of 1880 an operetta called la mascotte played first in french and then in english in 1881 introducing the english speaking world to the word mascot .